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The Paramaterial Phantasy

“I know the place”: Locating the Woodcut in William Griffith’s 1570 Edition of William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat

William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat remains shrouded in mystery. The bulk of the short fiction supposedly recreates an oration given by Gregory Streamer on December 28th of the preceding year. Streamer’s fantastic tale concerns an “experiment” he performed that allowed him to hear the language of cats. Streamer’s oration, split into three by the character […]

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Posted in Tangents, William Baldwin Tagged sources, William Baldwin, woodcuts, bestiaries, Beware the Cat, book history, early modern 3 Comments

The Noble Lyfe and Natures of Man? Constructing the boundary between man and beast in an early modern bestiary.

First published in Antwerp around 1521, Lawrence Andrewe’s English translation of the Dutch Der Dieren Palleys of the previous year presents a bold title that indicates that its text will reify the separation of man from beast and declare the nobility of human existence in a world of animals. Through the English title, the bestiary […]

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